Nigeria Records Zero Case of Polio in Two Months

1 February 2013

Nigeria has attained an outstanding feat by recording no incidence of poliomyelitis in the last two months.

Speaking with journalists in Abuja yesterday after meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan, the Director General of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Ado Mohammed, said the committee on the eradication of polio had stepped up its efforts to totally eliminate the disease from the country in the next two years.

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